Syliva Plath- Using the poems "Daddy" and "The Arrival of The Bee Box," write a poetry response to Plath's works noting the language and imagery
Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and "The Arrival of the Bee Box"
Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and the "Arrival of the Bee Box" both show the speaker of the poem desperately struggling with their feelings of vulnerability and powerlessness. Throughout the poems, the readers see the speaker attempting to assert their power, though never actually succeeding. In the first stanza of 'Daddy", Plath pens "You do not do, you do not do, any more black shoe" and …
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…ambivalence are prominent all throughout with the desperate attempts of asserting power, and finding one's self and inner peace, though then swiftly changing to feelings of helplessness and confusion. The reader never feels, in either two poems the speaker never actually feels powerful, and it is, in fact, pure bravado. Although the primary objects in the two poems are so different, they still generate similar feelings in Plath, those of fear, being overwhelmed and effacment.
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